Assembly.Load provides overloads that take an Evidence object in addition to the name of the assembly to load. This leads to the question -- what happens if you were to load the same assembly multiple times with different Evidence.
It's easy enough...

At least once a week I download my photos to a new folder on one of my computers. As part of that process I run some code that generates thumbnail images into a table. With almost 22,000 pictures, the thumbnail table is almost 100 megabytes (1 Meg for...

Last birthday I remember I was in Bordeaux and taking a sweet drive across southern France and had a HUGE party at Barcelona. My friends still talk to me abt it.
Fast Forward one year and change continent - we move from Southern France to Southern...

Blogspotting quotes Dave Sifry, CEO of Technorati:
"Sifry: I think RSS needs to be completely transparent. It’s like asking people to understand HTML in order to read a web site. That entirely limits your audience. Longhorn announced RSS being built...

MGB (Microsoft Global Briefing) 2005 is happening this week at Atlanta in Georgia Dome. Ofcourse all I know about Georgiadome is that its where MichaelVick of the Atlanta Falcons does his prodigous runs.
Today was one of those days where - all that...

I previously posted a tool to allow inline IL in C# / VB.Net.
At the IL level, the CLR needs to know the maximum stack depth of each method. This can be specified in ILasm via the “.maxstack” directive. In that post I wrongfully said that if you leave...

It's been quiet on this blog as we get closer to Whidbey RTM. Meanwhile, Erik Saltwell - the dev lead for system.xml - gives a "behind the scenes" look at GetElementsByTagName . It's quite a good read, especially if you're using this method.
Stan Kitsis

An internal email I read discussed the proper means to compare a System.Uri in .NET 2.0. When comparing Uri's, should you use Ordinal comparison or should you use InvariantCulture?
I paused while reading... Ordinal? What is that?
The first time...

A little known feature of Virtual PC is that you can select a virtual machine in the Virtual PC Console and drag and drop it off on to the desktop. This will create a shortcut on the desktop that can be used to launch the selected virtual machine directly...

As you may already be aware, there is an article on msdn about the great performance improvements we made in the V2 xml stack. This is a pretty big event for the team, since increasing performance was one of the big goals of this release.
While I posted this to give a shout-out to the team for the great perf work in they did for Whidbey, I want to take a minute to point out another interesting part of the article......